When an interrupt is migrated away from a cpu it will stay
in its vector_irq array until smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt
succeeded. The cfg->move_in_progress flag is cleared already
when the IPI was sent.
When the interrupt is destroyed after migration its 'struct
irq_desc' is freed and the vector_irq arrays are cleaned up.
But since cfg->move_in_progress is already 0 the references
at cpus before the last migration will not be cleared. So
this would leave a reference to an already destroyed irq
alive.
When the cpu is taken down at this point, the
check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable() function finds a valid irq
number in the vector_irq array, but gets NULL for its
descriptor and dereferences it, causing a kernel panic.
This has been observed on real systems at shutdown. Add a
check to check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable() for a valid
'struct irq_desc' to prevent this issue.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: alnovak@suse.com
Cc: joro@8bytes.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150204132754.GA10078@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock.
As explained by Linus currently it does:
prev = *lock;
add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC);
/* add_smp() is a full mb() */
if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG))
__ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev);
which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks,
because after you've done the "add_smp()" and released the spinlock
for the fast-path, you can't access the spinlock any more. Exactly
because a fast-path lock might come in, and release the whole data
structure.
Linus suggested that we should not do any writes to lock after unlock(),
and we can move slowpath clearing to fastpath lock.
So this patch implements the fix with:
1. Moving slowpath flag to head (Oleg):
Unlocked locks don't care about the slowpath flag; therefore we can keep
it set after the last unlock, and clear it again on the first (try)lock.
-- this removes the write after unlock. note that keeping slowpath flag would
result in unnecessary kicks.
By moving the slowpath flag from the tail to the head ticket we also avoid
the need to access both the head and tail tickets on unlock.
2. use xadd to avoid read/write after unlock that checks the need for
unlock_kick (Linus):
We further avoid the need for a read-after-release by using xadd;
the prev head value will include the slowpath flag and indicate if we
need to do PV kicking of suspended spinners -- on modern chips xadd
isn't (much) more expensive than an add + load.
Result:
setup: 16core (32 cpu +ht sandy bridge 8GB 16vcpu guest)
benchmark overcommit %improve
kernbench 1x -0.13
kernbench 2x 0.02
dbench 1x -1.77
dbench 2x -0.63
[Jeremy: Hinted missing TICKET_LOCK_INC for kick]
[Oleg: Moved slowpath flag to head, ticket_equals idea]
[PeterZ: Added detailed changelog]
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: a.ryabinin@samsung.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: waiman.long@hp.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150215173043.GA7471@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull mcelog regression fix from Tony Luck:
"Fix regression - functions on the mce notifier chain should not be
able to decide that an event should not be logged"
* tag 'please-pull-fixmcelog' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
x86/mce: Fix regression. All error records should report via /dev/mcelog
Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly
sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission
to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such
as timing information and other CPU execution details.
This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the
(non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting. The new default is
that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is
needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case).
As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the
x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added.
The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ <50ns to the context switch cost
between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks
perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped
perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage()
perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping
x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
Pull tty/serial driver patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver update for 3.20-rc1. Nothing huge
here, just lots of driver updates and some core tty layer fixes as
well. All have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'tty-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (119 commits)
serial: 8250: Fix UART_BUG_TXEN workaround
serial: driver for ETRAX FS UART
tty: remove unused variable sprop
serial: of-serial: fetch line number from DT
serial: samsung: earlycon support depends on CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG_CONSOLE
tty/serial: serial8250_set_divisor() can be static
tty/serial: Add Spreadtrum sc9836-uart driver support
Documentation: DT: Add bindings for Spreadtrum SoC Platform
serial: samsung: remove redundant interrupt enabling
tty: Remove external interface for tty_set_termios()
serial: omap: Fix RTS handling
serial: 8250_omap: Use UPSTAT_AUTORTS for RTS handling
serial: core: Rework hw-assisted flow control support
tty/serial: 8250_early: Add support for PXA UARTs
tty/serial: of_serial: add support for PXA/MMP uarts
tty/serial: of_serial: add DT alias ID handling
serial: 8250: Prevent concurrent updates to shadow registers
serial: 8250: Use canary to restart console after suspend
serial: 8250: Refactor XR17V35X divisor calculation
serial: 8250: Refactor divisor programming
...
This feature let us to detect accesses out of bounds of global variables.
This will work as for globals in kernel image, so for globals in modules.
Currently this won't work for symbols in user-specified sections (e.g.
__init, __read_mostly, ...)
The idea of this is simple. Compiler increases each global variable by
redzone size and add constructors invoking __asan_register_globals()
function. Information about global variable (address, size, size with
redzone ...) passed to __asan_register_globals() so we could poison
variable's redzone.
This patch also forces module_alloc() to return 8*PAGE_SIZE aligned
address making shadow memory handling (
kasan_module_alloc()/kasan_module_free() ) more simple. Such alignment
guarantees that each shadow page backing modules address space correspond
to only one module_alloc() allocation.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For instrumenting global variables KASan will shadow memory backing memory
for modules. So on module loading we will need to allocate memory for
shadow and map it at address in shadow that corresponds to the address
allocated in module_alloc().
__vmalloc_node_range() could be used for this purpose, except it puts a
guard hole after allocated area. Guard hole in shadow memory should be a
problem because at some future point we might need to have a shadow memory
at address occupied by guard hole. So we could fail to allocate shadow
for module_alloc().
Now we have VM_NO_GUARD flag disabling guard page, so we need to pass into
__vmalloc_node_range(). Add new parameter 'vm_flags' to
__vmalloc_node_range() function.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Recently instrumentation of builtin functions calls was removed from GCC
5.0. To check the memory accessed by such functions, userspace asan
always uses interceptors for them.
So now we should do this as well. This patch declares
memset/memmove/memcpy as weak symbols. In mm/kasan/kasan.c we have our
own implementation of those functions which checks memory before accessing
it.
Default memset/memmove/memcpy now now always have aliases with '__'
prefix. For files that built without kasan instrumentation (e.g.
mm/slub.c) original mem* replaced (via #define) with prefixed variants,
cause we don't want to check memory accesses there.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer.
16TB of virtual addressed used for shadow memory. It's located in range
[ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000] between vmemmap and %esp fixup
stacks.
At early stage we map whole shadow region with zero page. Latter, after
pages mapped to direct mapping address range we unmap zero pages from
corresponding shadow (see kasan_map_shadow()) and allocate and map a real
shadow memory reusing vmemmap_populate() function.
Also replace __pa with __pa_nodebug before shadow initialized. __pa with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y make external function call (__phys_addr)
__phys_addr is instrumented, so __asan_load could be called before shadow
area initialized.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask
and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args()
respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments
necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask.
* Unnecessary buffer size calculation and condition on the lenght
removed from intel_cacheinfo.c::show_shared_cpu_map_func().
* uv_nmi_nr_cpus_pr() got overly smart and implemented "..."
abbreviation if the output stretched over the predefined 1024 byte
buffer. Replaced with plain printk.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 5fcee53ce7.
It causes the suspend to fail on at least the Chromebook Pixel, possibly
other platforms too.
Joerg Roedel points out that the logic should probably have been
if (max_physical_apicid > 255 ||
!(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST) &&
hypervisor_x2apic_available())) {
instead, but since the code is not in any fast-path, so we can just live
without that optimization and just revert to the original code.
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Acked-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__FUNCTION__ hasn't been treated as a string literal since gcc 3.4, so
this only helps people who only test-compile using 3.3 (compiler-gcc3.h
barks at anything older than that). Besides, there are almost no
occurrences of __FUNCTION__ left in the tree.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: convert remaining __FUNCTION__ references]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target. This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.
Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.
Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.
It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.
[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
- clang assembly fixes from Ard
- optimisations and cleanups for Aurora L2 cache support
- efficient L2 cache support for secure monitor API on Exynos SoCs
- debug menu cleanup from Daniel Thompson to allow better behaviour for
multiplatform kernels
- StrongARM SA11x0 conversion to irq domains, and pxa_timer
- kprobes updates for older ARM CPUs
- move probes support out of arch/arm/kernel to arch/arm/probes
- add inline asm support for the rbit (reverse bits) instruction
- provide an ARM mode secondary CPU entry point (for Qualcomm CPUs)
- remove the unused ARMv3 user access code
- add driver_override support to AMBA Primecell bus
* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (55 commits)
ARM: 8256/1: driver coamba: add device binding path 'driver_override'
ARM: 8301/1: qcom: Use secondary_startup_arm()
ARM: 8302/1: Add a secondary_startup that assumes ARM mode
ARM: 8300/1: teach __asmeq that r11 == fp and r12 == ip
ARM: kprobes: Fix compilation error caused by superfluous '*'
ARM: 8297/1: cache-l2x0: optimize aurora range operations
ARM: 8296/1: cache-l2x0: clean up aurora cache handling
ARM: 8284/1: sa1100: clear RCSR_SMR on resume
ARM: 8283/1: sa1100: collie: clear PWER register on machine init
ARM: 8282/1: sa1100: use handle_domain_irq
ARM: 8281/1: sa1100: move GPIO-related IRQ code to gpio driver
ARM: 8280/1: sa1100: switch to irq_domain_add_simple()
ARM: 8279/1: sa1100: merge both GPIO irqdomains
ARM: 8278/1: sa1100: split irq handling for low GPIOs
ARM: 8291/1: replace magic number with PAGE_SHIFT macro in fixup_pv code
ARM: 8290/1: decompressor: fix a wrong comment
ARM: 8286/1: mm: Fix dma_contiguous_reserve comment
ARM: 8248/1: pm: remove outdated comment
ARM: 8274/1: Fix DEBUG_LL for multi-platform kernels (without PL01X)
ARM: 8273/1: Seperate DEBUG_UART_PHYS from DEBUG_LL on EP93XX
...
Pull live patching infrastructure from Jiri Kosina:
"Let me provide a bit of history first, before describing what is in
this pile.
Originally, there was kSplice as a standalone project that implemented
stop_machine()-based patching for the linux kernel. This project got
later acquired, and the current owner is providing live patching as a
proprietary service, without any intentions to have their
implementation merged.
Then, due to rising user/customer demand, both Red Hat and SUSE
started working on their own implementation (not knowing about each
other), and announced first versions roughly at the same time [1] [2].
The principle difference between the two solutions is how they are
making sure that the patching is performed in a consistent way when it
comes to different execution threads with respect to the semantic
nature of the change that is being introduced.
In a nutshell, kPatch is issuing stop_machine(), then looking at
stacks of all existing processess, and if it decides that the system
is in a state that can be patched safely, it proceeds insterting code
redirection machinery to the patched functions.
On the other hand, kGraft provides a per-thread consistency during one
single pass of a process through the kernel and performs a lazy
contignuous migration of threads from "unpatched" universe to the
"patched" one at safe checkpoints.
If interested in a more detailed discussion about the consistency
models and its possible combinations, please see the thread that
evolved around [3].
It pretty quickly became obvious to the interested parties that it's
absolutely impractical in this case to have several isolated solutions
for one task to co-exist in the kernel. During a dedicated Live
Kernel Patching track at LPC in Dusseldorf, all the interested parties
sat together and came up with a joint aproach that would work for both
distro vendors. Steven Rostedt took notes [4] from this meeting.
And the foundation for that aproach is what's present in this pull
request.
It provides a basic infrastructure for function "live patching" (i.e.
code redirection), including API for kernel modules containing the
actual patches, and API/ABI for userspace to be able to operate on the
patches (look up what patches are applied, enable/disable them, etc).
It's relatively simple and minimalistic, as it's making use of
existing kernel infrastructure (namely ftrace) as much as possible.
It's also self-contained, in a sense that it doesn't hook itself in
any other kernel subsystem (it doesn't even touch any other code).
It's now implemented for x86 only as a reference architecture, but
support for powerpc, s390 and arm is already in the works (adding
arch-specific support basically boils down to teaching ftrace about
regs-saving).
Once this common infrastructure gets merged, both Red Hat and SUSE
have agreed to immediately start porting their current solutions on
top of this, abandoning their out-of-tree code. The plan basically is
that each patch will be marked by flag(s) that would indicate which
consistency model it is willing to use (again, the details have been
sketched out already in the thread at [3]).
Before this happens, the current codebase can be used to patch a large
group of secruity/stability problems the patches for which are not too
complex (in a sense that they don't introduce non-trivial change of
function's return value semantics, they don't change layout of data
structures, etc) -- this corresponds to LEAVE_FUNCTION &&
SWITCH_FUNCTION semantics described at [3].
This tree has been in linux-next since December.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/30/477
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/14/857
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/7/354
[4] http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_LivePatching.txt
[ The core code is introduced by the three commits authored by Seth
Jennings, which got a lot of changes incorporated during numerous
respins and reviews of the initial implementation. All the followup
commits have materialized only after public tree has been created,
so they were not folded into initial three commits so that the
public tree doesn't get rebased ]"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
livepatch: add missing newline to error message
livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
livepatch: fix uninitialized return value
livepatch: support for repatching a function
livepatch: enforce patch stacking semantics
livepatch: change ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING to HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING
livepatch: fix deferred module patching order
livepatch: handle ancient compilers with more grace
livepatch: kconfig: use bool instead of boolean
livepatch: samples: fix usage example comments
livepatch: MAINTAINERS: add git tree location
livepatch: use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY
livepatch: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86
livepatch: samples: add sample live patching module
livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching
livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"We have a few new features this time, including a new SFI-based
cpufreq driver, a new devfreq driver for Tegra Activity Monitor, a new
devfreq class for providing its governors with raw utilization data
and a new ACPI driver for AMD SoCs.
Still, the majority of changes here are reworks of existing code to
make it more straightforward or to prepare it for implementing new
features on top of it. The primary example is the rework of ACPI
resources handling from Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner and Lv Zheng with
support for IOAPIC hotplug implemented on top of it, but there is
quite a number of changes of this kind in the cpufreq core, ACPICA,
ACPI EC driver, ACPI processor driver and the generic power domains
core code too.
The most active developer is Viresh Kumar with his cpufreq changes.
Specifics:
- Rework of the core ACPI resources parsing code to fix issues in it
and make using resource offsets more convenient and consolidation
of some resource-handing code in a couple of places that have grown
analagous data structures and code to cover the the same gap in the
core (Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner, Lv Zheng).
- ACPI-based IOAPIC hotplug support on top of the resources handling
rework (Jiang Liu, Yinghai Lu).
- ACPICA update to upstream release 20150204 including an interrupt
handling rework that allows drivers to install raw handlers for
ACPI GPEs which then become entirely responsible for the given GPE
and the ACPICA core code won't touch it (Lv Zheng, David E Box,
Octavian Purdila).
- ACPI EC driver rework to fix several concurrency issues and other
problems related to events handling on top of the ACPICA's new
support for raw GPE handlers (Lv Zheng).
- New ACPI driver for AMD SoCs analogous to the LPSS (Low-Power
Subsystem) driver for Intel chips (Ken Xue).
- Two minor fixes of the ACPI LPSS driver (Heikki Krogerus, Jarkko
Nikula).
- Two new blacklist entries for machines (Samsung 730U3E/740U3E and
510R) where the native backlight interface doesn't work correctly
while the ACPI one does (Hans de Goede).
- Rework of the ACPI processor driver's handling of idle states to
make the code more straightforward and less bloated overall (Rafael
J Wysocki).
- Assorted minor fixes related to ACPI and SFI (Andreas Ruprecht,
Andy Shevchenko, Hanjun Guo, Jan Beulich, Rafael J Wysocki, Yaowei
Bai).
- PCI core power management modification to avoid resuming (some)
runtime-suspended devices during system suspend if they are in the
right states already (Rafael J Wysocki).
- New SFI-based cpufreq driver for Intel platforms using SFI
(Srinidhi Kasagar).
- cpufreq core fixes, cleanups and simplifications (Viresh Kumar,
Doug Anderson, Wolfram Sang).
- SkyLake CPU support and other updates for the intel_pstate driver
(Kristen Carlson Accardi, Srinivas Pandruvada).
- cpufreq-dt driver cleanup (Markus Elfring).
- Init fix for the ARM big.LITTLE cpuidle driver (Sudeep Holla).
- Generic power domains core code fixes and cleanups (Ulf Hansson).
- Operating Performance Points (OPP) core code cleanups and kernel
documentation update (Nishanth Menon).
- New dabugfs interface to make the list of PM QoS constraints
available to user space (Nishanth Menon).
- New devfreq driver for Tegra Activity Monitor (Tomeu Vizoso).
- New devfreq class (devfreq_event) to provide raw utilization data
to devfreq governors (Chanwoo Choi).
- Assorted minor fixes and cleanups related to power management
(Andreas Ruprecht, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Rickard Strandqvist, Pavel
Machek, Todd E Brandt, Wonhong Kwon).
- turbostat updates (Len Brown) and cpupower Makefile improvement
(Sriram Raghunathan)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (151 commits)
tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on APERF_MSR
tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on invariant TSC
Merge branch 'pci/host-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci into acpi-resources
tools/power turbostat: decode MSR_*_PERF_LIMIT_REASONS
tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on root permission
ACPI / video: Add disable_native_backlight quirk for Samsung 510R
ACPI / PM: Remove unneeded nested #ifdef
USB / PM: Remove unneeded #ifdef and associated dead code
intel_pstate: provide option to only use intel_pstate with HWP
ACPI / EC: Add GPE reference counting debugging messages
ACPI / EC: Add query flushing support
ACPI / EC: Refine command storm prevention support
ACPI / EC: Add command flushing support.
ACPI / EC: Introduce STARTED/STOPPED flags to replace BLOCKED flag
ACPI: add AMD ACPI2Platform device support for x86 system
ACPI / table: remove duplicate NULL check for the handler of acpi_table_parse()
ACPI / EC: Update revision due to raw handler mode.
ACPI / EC: Reduce ec_poll() by referencing the last register access timestamp.
ACPI / EC: Fix several GPE handling issues by deploying ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode.
ACPICA: Events: Enable APIs to allow interrupt/polling adaptive request based GPE handling model
...
* acpi-doc:
MAINTAINERS / ACPI: add the necessary '/' according to entry rules
ACPI / Documentation: add a missing '='
* acpi-pm:
ACPI / sleep: mark acpi_sleep_dmi_check() __init
* acpi-pcc:
ACPI / PCC: Use pr_debug() for debug messages in pcc_init()
* acpi-tables:
ACPI / table: remove duplicate NULL check for the handler of acpi_table_parse()
Pull x86 mm cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"Two cleanups: simplify parse_setup_data() and sanitize_e820_map()
usage"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, e820: Clean up sanitize_e820_map() users
x86, setup: Let early_memremap() handle page alignment
Pull x86 SoC updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Various Intel Atom SoC updates (mostly to enhance debuggability), plus
an apb_timer cleanup"
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: pmc_atom: Expose contents of PSS
x86: pmc_atom: Clean up init function
x86: pmc-atom: Remove unused macro
x86: pmc_atom: don%27t check for NULL twice
x86: pmc-atom: Assign debugfs node as soon as possible
x86/platform: Remove unused function from apb_timer.c
Pull x86 fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Initial round of kernel_fpu_begin/end cleanups from Oleg Nesterov,
plus a cleanup from Borislav Petkov"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, fpu: Fix math_state_restore() race with kernel_fpu_begin()
x86, fpu: Don't abuse has_fpu in __kernel_fpu_begin/end()
x86, fpu: Introduce per-cpu in_kernel_fpu state
x86/fpu: Use a symbolic name for asm operand
Pull x86 asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were the x86/entry and sysret
enhancements from Andy Lutomirski, see merge commits 772a9aca12 and
b57c0b5175 for details"
[ Exectutive summary: IST exceptions that interrupt user space will run
on the regular kernel stack instead of the IST stack. Which
simplifies things particularly on return to user space.
The sysret cleanup ends up simplifying the logic on when we can use
sysret vs when we have to use iret. - Linus ]
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86_64, entry: Remove the syscall exit audit and schedule optimizations
x86_64, entry: Use sysret to return to userspace when possible
x86, traps: Fix ist_enter from userspace
x86, vdso: teach 'make clean' remove vdso64 binaries
x86_64 entry: Fix RCX for ptraced syscalls
x86: entry_64.S: fold SAVE_ARGS_IRQ macro into its sole user
x86: ia32entry.S: fix wrong symbolic constant usage: R11->ARGOFFSET
x86: entry_64.S: delete unused code
x86, mce: Get rid of TIF_MCE_NOTIFY and associated mce tricks
x86, traps: Add ist_begin_non_atomic and ist_end_non_atomic
x86: Clean up current_stack_pointer
x86, traps: Track entry into and exit from IST context
x86, entry: Switch stacks on a paranoid entry from userspace
Pull x86 APIC updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Continued fallout of the conversion of the x86 IRQ code to the
hierarchical irqdomain framework: more cleanups, simplifications,
memory allocation behavior enhancements, mainly in the interrupt
remapping and APIC code"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
x86, init: Fix UP boot regression on x86_64
iommu/amd: Fix irq remapping detection logic
x86/acpi: Make acpi_[un]register_gsi_ioapic() depend on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
x86: Consolidate boot cpu timer setup
x86/apic: Reuse apic_bsp_setup() for UP APIC setup
x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init
x86/smpboot: Move apic init code to apic.c
init: Get rid of x86isms
x86/apic: Move apic_init_uniprocessor code
x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling
x86/apic: Sanitize ioapic handling
x86/ioapic: Add proper checks to setp/enable_IO_APIC()
x86/ioapic: Provide stub functions for IOAPIC%3Dn
x86/smpboot: Move smpboot inlines to code
x86/x2apic: Use state information for disable
x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function
x86/x2apic: Disable x2apic from nox2apic setup
x86/x2apic: Add proper state tracking
x86/x2apic: Clarify remapping mode for x2apic enablement
x86/x2apic: Move code in conditional region
...
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- AMD range breakpoints support:
Extend breakpoint tools and core to support address range through
perf event with initial backend support for AMD extended
breakpoints.
The syntax is:
perf record -e mem:addr/len:type
For example set write breakpoint from 0x1000 to 0x1200 (0x1000 + 512)
perf record -e mem:0x1000/512:w
- event throttling/rotating fixes
- various event group handling fixes, cleanups and general paranoia
code to be more robust against bugs in the future.
- kernel stack overhead fixes
User-visible tooling side changes:
- Show precise number of samples in at the end of a 'record' session,
if processing build ids, since we will then traverse the whole
perf.data file and see all the PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE records,
otherwise stop showing the previous off-base heuristicly counted
number of "samples" (Namhyung Kim).
- Support to read compressed module from build-id cache (Namhyung
Kim)
- Enable sampling loads and stores simultaneously in 'perf mem'
(Stephane Eranian)
- 'perf diff' output improvements (Namhyung Kim)
- Fix error reporting for evsel pgfault constructor (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
Tooling side infrastructure changes:
- Cache eh/debug frame offset for dwarf unwind (Namhyung Kim)
- Support parsing parameterized events (Cody P Schafer)
- Add support for IP address formats in libtraceevent (David Ahern)
Plus other misc fixes"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits)
perf: Decouple unthrottling and rotating
perf: Drop module reference on event init failure
perf: Use POLLIN instead of POLL_IN for perf poll data in flag
perf: Fix put_event() ctx lock
perf: Fix move_group() order
perf: Fix event->ctx locking
perf: Add a bit of paranoia
perf symbols: Convert lseek + read to pread
perf tools: Use perf_data_file__fd() consistently
perf symbols: Support to read compressed module from build-id cache
perf evsel: Set attr.task bit for a tracking event
perf header: Set header version correctly
perf record: Show precise number of samples
perf tools: Do not use __perf_session__process_events() directly
perf callchain: Cache eh/debug frame offset for dwarf unwind
perf tools: Provide stub for missing pthread_attr_setaffinity_np
perf evsel: Don't rely on malloc working for sz 0
tools lib traceevent: Add support for IP address formats
perf ui/tui: Show fatal error message only if exists
perf tests: Fix typo in sample-parsing.c
...
I'm getting complaints from validation teams that have updated their
Linux kernels from ancient versions to current. They don't see the
error logs they expect. I tell the to unload any EDAC drivers[1], and
things start working again. The problem is that we short-circuit
the logging process if any function on the decoder chain claims to
have dealt with the problem:
ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
if (ret == NOTIFY_STOP)
return;
The logic we used when we added this code was that we did not want
to confuse users with double reports of the same error.
But it turns out users are not confused - they are upset that they
don't see a log where their tools used to find a log.
I could also get into a long description of how the consumer of this
log does more than just decode model specific details of the error.
It keeps counts, tracks thresholds, takes actions and runs scripts
that can alert administrators to problems.
[1] We've recently compounded the problem because the acpi_extlog
driver also registers for this notifier and also returns NOTIFY_STOP.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Pull timer and x86 fix from Ingo Molnar:
"A CLOCK_TAI early expiry fix and an x86 microcode driver oops fix"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hrtimer: Fix incorrect tai offset calculation for non high-res timer systems
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode: Return error from driver init code when loader is disabled
In acpi_table_parse(), pointer of the table to pass to handler() is
checked before handler() called, so remove all the duplicate NULL
check in the handler function.
CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
We currently allow any process to use rdpmc. This significantly
weakens the protection offered by PR_TSC_DISABLED, and it could be
helpful to users attempting to exploit timing attacks.
Since we can't enable access to individual counters, use a very
coarse heuristic to limit access to rdpmc: allow access only when
a perf_event is mmapped. This protects seccomp sandboxes.
There is plenty of room to further tighen these restrictions. For
example, this allows rdpmc for any x86_pmu event, but it's only
useful for self-monitoring tasks.
As a side effect, cap_user_rdpmc will now be false for AMD uncore
events. This isn't a real regression, since .event_idx is disabled
for these events anyway for the time being. Whenever that gets
re-added, the cap_user_rdpmc code can be adjusted or refactored
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: "hillf.zj" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a2bdb3cf3a1d70c26980d7c6dddfbaa69f3182bf.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Rename CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH to make the naming of
the config and the code more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Add support for specifying PCI based UARTs for earlyprintk
using a syntax like "earlyprintk=pciserial,00:18.1,115200",
where 00:18.1 is the BDF of a UART device.
[Slightly tidied from Stuart's original patch]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Intel Moorestown platform support was removed few years ago. This is a follow
up which removes Moorestown specific code for the serial devices. It includes
mrst_max3110 and earlyprintk bits.
This was used on SFI (Medfield, Clovertrail) based platforms as well, though
new ones use normal serial interface for the console service.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We used to optimize rescheduling and audit on syscall exit. Now
that the full slow path is reasonably fast, remove these
optimizations. Syscall exit auditing is now handled exclusively by
syscall_trace_leave.
This adds something like 10ns to the previously optimized paths on
my computer, presumably due mostly to SAVE_REST / RESTORE_REST.
I think that we should eventually replace both the syscall and
non-paranoid interrupt exit slow paths with a pair of C functions
along the lines of the syscall entry hooks.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22f2aa4a0361707a5cfb1de9d45260b39965dead.1421453410.git.luto@amacapital.net
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
The x86_64 entry code currently jumps through complex and
inconsistent hoops to try to minimize the impact of syscall exit
work. For a true fast-path syscall, almost nothing needs to be
done, so returning is just a check for exit work and sysret. For a
full slow-path return from a syscall, the C exit hook is invoked if
needed and we join the iret path.
Using iret to return to userspace is very slow, so the entry code
has accumulated various special cases to try to do certain forms of
exit work without invoking iret. This is error-prone, since it
duplicates assembly code paths, and it's dangerous, since sysret
can malfunction in interesting ways if used carelessly. It's
also inefficient, since a lot of useful cases aren't optimized
and therefore force an iret out of a combination of paranoia and
the fact that no one has bothered to write even more asm code
to avoid it.
I would argue that this approach is backwards. Rather than trying
to avoid the iret path, we should instead try to make the iret path
fast. Under a specific set of conditions, iret is unnecessary. In
particular, if RIP==RCX, RFLAGS==R11, RIP is canonical, RF is not
set, and both SS and CS are as expected, then
movq 32(%rsp),%rsp;sysret does the same thing as iret. This set of
conditions is nearly always satisfied on return from syscalls, and
it can even occasionally be satisfied on return from an irq.
Even with the careful checks for sysret applicability, this cuts
nearly 80ns off of the overhead from syscalls with unoptimized exit
work. This includes tracing and context tracking, and any return
that invokes KVM's user return notifier. For example, the cost of
getpid with CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE=y drops from ~360ns to
~280ns on my computer.
This may allow the removal and even eventual conversion to C
of a respectable amount of exit asm.
This may require further tweaking to give the full benefit on Xen.
It may be worthwhile to adjust signal delivery and exec to try hit
the sysret path.
This does not optimize returns to 32-bit userspace. Making the same
optimization for CS == __USER32_CS is conceptually straightforward,
but it will require some tedious code to handle the differences
between sysretl and sysexitl.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/71428f63e681e1b4aa1a781e3ef7c27f027d1103.1421453410.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
context_tracking_user_exit() has no effect if in_interrupt() returns true,
so ist_enter() didn't work. Fix it by calling exception_enter(), and thus
context_tracking_user_exit(), before incrementing the preempt count.
This also adds an assertion that will catch the problem reliably if
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y to help prevent the bug from being reintroduced.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/261ebee6aee55a4724746d0d7024697013c40a08.1422709102.git.luto@amacapital.net
Fixes: 9592747538 x86, traps: Track entry into and exit from IST context
Reported-and-tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
The new hw_breakpoint bits are now ready for v3.20, merge them
into the main branch, to avoid conflicts.
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86/entry enhancements from Andy Lutomirski:
" This is my accumulated x86 entry work, part 1, for 3.20. The meat
of this is an IST rework. When an IST exception interrupts user
space, we will handle it on the per-thread kernel stack instead of
on the IST stack. This sounds messy, but it actually simplifies the
IST entry/exit code, because it eliminates some ugly games we used
to play in order to handle rescheduling, signal delivery, etc on the
way out of an IST exception.
The IST rework introduces proper context tracking to IST exception
handlers. I haven't seen any bug reports, but the old code could
have incorrectly treated an IST exception handler as an RCU extended
quiescent state.
The memory failure change (included in this pull request with
Borislav and Tony's permission) eliminates a bunch of code that
is no longer needed now that user memory failure handlers are
called in process context.
Finally, this includes a few on Denys' uncontroversial and Obviously
Correct (tm) cleanups.
The IST and memory failure changes have been in -next for a while.
LKML references:
IST rework:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1416604491.git.luto@amacapital.net
Memory failure change:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54ab2ffa301102cd6e@agluck-desk.sc.intel.com
Denys' cleanups:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420927210-19738-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
"
This tree semantically depends on and is based on the following RCU commit:
734d168013 ("rcu: Make rcu_nmi_enter() handle nesting")
... and for that reason won't be pushed upstream before the RCU bits hit Linus's tree.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
